Re: Parallel port on SparcClassic

1999-09-13 Thread Alexander Shumakovitch
Thanks a lot everybody who replied to my original post! I finally managed to get printer working with both 2.0.35 and 2.2.12 kernels. For 2.0.35 I had to get the latest bpp.c from the (unreleased) sparc patch of 28.11.98 and to apply those __volatile__ changes. August's patch supplied with Debian

Re: new kernels available, please test before upload to unstable

1999-09-13 Thread Eric Delaunay
Ben Collins wrote: > On Sun, Sep 12, 1999 at 06:05:05PM +0200, Eric Delaunay wrote: > > Ben Collins wrote: > > > I've compiled new kernel using the 2.2.12 source and a sparc patch > > > that is also packaged and ready for upload. There is a sun4u and > > > sparc image, plus headers. > > > > > > ht

Re: Parallel port on SparcClassic

1999-09-13 Thread Eric Delaunay
Derrick J Brashear wrote: > > > On Sat, 11 Sep 1999, Alexander Shumakovitch wrote: > > > suspect the worst and indeed somewhere on RH site found that parallel port > > on > > sbus SPARCs is listed as unsupported. So I'd like to try 2.2.x kernel > > hopping > > it's less unsupported there than

xfree86 config package

1999-09-13 Thread Jean-Paul Blaquiere
i`m trying to find the xf86config package. it's not in the sparc-binary (potato) tree, but is in the alpha and intel trees. *confuzzled* -- Jean-Paul Blaquiere [EMAIL PROTECTED] gotta www.wibble.org again

Re: Parallel port on SparcClassic

1999-09-13 Thread Derrick J Brashear
On Sat, 11 Sep 1999, Alexander Shumakovitch wrote: > suspect the worst and indeed somewhere on RH site found that parallel port on > sbus SPARCs is listed as unsupported. So I'd like to try 2.2.x kernel hopping > it's less unsupported there than in 2.0.35 ;-) The problem now is that all the > ke

Re: Bug#44685: Dependency problem with LPRng (fwd)

1999-09-13 Thread Ben Collins
On Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 09:59:16AM +1000, Craig Small wrote: > G'day sparc people, > This bug is for whoever does the sparc version of lprng, it is not a > generic deb or upstream issue. I know this isn't the best solution, but sparc's slink and potato packages are binary compatible (unlike the